Here is the best information, I'm able to post on the issue of Marine Spatial. As a cartography, remote senseing and GIS (not working in this field) one cannot stress the importants of this problem. Kea'aumoku Kapu did the best he could on short notice:
"After making strong recommendations for a landmark national ocean policy in September, President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force has turned its attention to “stage two” of its effort to increase federal ocean protection.
This stage proposes a framework for a process called coastal and marine spatial planning, which can help America manage the increasing amount of industrial pressure on our seas while protecting them from further degradation.
Today, the administration released the details of its Interim Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Framework and, once again, the outlook is promising.
Let me explain…
What is coastal & marine spatial planning?
We look to our seas to satisfy a lot of demands – from food to energy, shipping, recreation and the discovery of new medicines. Coastal & marine spatial planning (MSP) is the process of planning ahead and identifying spaces in the ocean and coastal waters that are appropriate for various uses, separating incompatible uses, while at the same time ensuring that the environment and marine life are protected. MSP allows us to identify in advance areas where certain industrial uses make sense, and areas where they don’t.
Other countries, such as Australia, Norway and the Netherlands, are using MSP to improve management of their ocean resources. Some states have done this as well. For example, Massachusetts is completing a comprehensive ocean management plan and Rhode Island is in the process of developing one.
Highlights of the Obama Administration’s Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Framework:
Today, President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force released its proposed recommendations for how America can plan for the future of our oceans using MSP. These recommendations will be available for a 60-day public comment period.
NRDC is pleased to see that:
- The framework is grounded in environmental protection. In particular, the guidelines and principles from the Task Force’s national ocean policy report will guide the MSP process, including a focus on protecting, maintaining, and restoring the health and biological diversity of our oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes. Environmental protection needs to form the basis of any planning effort. If ocean ecosystems are not protected, they cannot continue to provide the services, like food, jobs and recreation that people want and need.
- The framework ensures seats at the table for states and regional partnerships, as well as providing opportunity for public input. States and regional partnerships will have the opportunity to work with federal agencies to address what is needed in their specific regions and to help plan. In other words – we’re not talking about officials in Washington drawing lines on a map.
- The framework sets a solid timeline for progress. It divides the country into 9 separate regions (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, South-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, West Coast, Pacific Islands, Alaska/Arctic and the Great Lakes) and sets a 2015 goal for completion and certification of regional coastal and marine spatial plans for all the regions.
- It can help address important industrial & environmental issues in each region. From siting offshore renewable energy projects (like offshore wind off the East Coast and wave projects off the West Coast), to protecting important fishing grounds (like Georges Bank off New England), and safeguarding key offshore habitats (like submarine canyons along the Atlantic Coast or migratory pathways for endangered whales off both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts) – this plan can help address key issues in each region of the country.
What does this mean for clean energy in the U.S.?
As we move toward a clean energy economy, we are increasingly turning to renewable offshore energy – like wind power – that won’t spill or run out. Marine spatial planning can help expedite the siting of these projects in an environmentally responsible way. MSP can and should be the blueprint we use to develop the energy of the future off our shores while also protecting our oceans.
Recognizing this, several environmental groups and offshore renewable energy companies came together to support a common set of principles regarding MSP. Many of these principles are reflected in the Ocean Policy Task Force’s proposed recommendations released today. By creating a roadmap for our oceans, we can minimize conflicts from the get-go that slow down offshore renewable energy development and get clean energy up and running faster.
Conclusion
The marine spatial planning framework presented by the Obama administration will help protect our ocean life while ensuring that sustainable ocean development can move forward. It’s an important step toward much needed improved stewardship of our oceans.
The president from Hawaii and the Lake Michigan continues to show us he’s true blue each step of the way. "
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Noelani posted on this forum she is the person in the film. If one can introduce yourself and use me as a reference. She and her children were the reasons why Pono kealoha and I shot up to kauai to do documentation with Noelani and Aunty Nani. Ever since it's been an up hill battle with Naue and lawsuits over Iwi (ancient bones).
By William Cole
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 14, 2010
"But after making its own "assertive moves," China may want to do damage control and assuage concerns by re-engaging with the U.S. military, he said.
The Pentagon said the Hawaii talks will focus on maritime cooperation, including search-and-rescue exercises and communication at sea.
"Evidently, they want to start with something relatively easy, rather than announce, for example, that we're going to ... solve and settle the issue over sovereignty in the South China Sea (and) where the United States Navy can and cannot operate, or arms sales to Taiwan," Roy said."
I don't get it. There is a Chinese cable station I watch sometimes that seems like all propoganda, but then when I watch the U.S. non-news, it's worse. Sometimes they have a blonde haole girl running around with Tibetans. That's really sad. Now I don't watch any of it. It's all about presentation, not content. People want to be entertained. That's it.
Internet it interesting. When going back and researching anything you can see how carefully the story is told, who tells it and how they can get the response they want. Mostly they just want a good set up for their next point.
Was looking at pictures of Wailua today. A lot of square buildings down at the end of the beach now.
I found some photos today of the deforested areas in the mountains - taken by tourists. I guess they are letting them walk all up in there now. That stuff doesn't dissipate for over 100 years. One was called "Sacred Kauai Forests." Well.
It's cold. Time for sleeping.
Sheridan
It's so warm here but unlike the warmth there. We are very comfortable, I can't imagine hot or cold--it's not in my DNA.
William Cole is a military writer with an ounce of humanity. Once in a while it surfaces--but rarely. In Pearl Harbor there is this huge contraption that looks like either golf balls, or a jolly green giant bubble gum machine. I'm describeing because I don't know what's it called.
In not here, but out there somewhere in the Pacific Ocean tracking the latest I suppose.
I too don't understand what's up but thinking in the game with out knowing the rules.
I don't have the military mind set maybe someone else does. But Kauai is indeed something to scan on google earth for any changes. From climate change to human habitats and its developing built up.
It's 6:03 pm and the sun is going down.
From the stimulus package they are building a gaudy Haleiwa type bridge.
Anyhow, you do know that Kauai Coco Palms was built on ancient graves huh? Thanks for stopping in
Kauai Coco Palms..........built on ancient graves......no, didn't know that............
I just rediscovered in my notes the following:
http://kohawaiipaeaina.net/custom1.html dated 3/1/2010 (17 pages)
"the claimant's heirs have legal standing in a court of law concerning burials and artifacts uncovered. The importance of the Royal Patent...the land holder, is that the Government (whether Kingdom, Republic, Territory, or State) relinquishes its interest in the property (J. Acl...2004 and Jon J. Chinen, 2002)
Will post the laws links, etc. at your e-mail address, etc.
aloha nui.
By William Cole
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 14, 2010
U.S. and China military officials will hold maritime security talks today and tomorrow in Hawaii as part of some of the first re-engagements since China broke off military-to-military relations last January because of a $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Officials said the talks will be held at the East-West Center and will involve about a half-dozen officials from each country. Marine Maj. Gen. Randolph Alles, the director of plans and policy at U.S. Pacific Command, will be the senior U.S. representative.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with his counterpart, Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie, in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday and accepted an invitation to visit Beijing.
Denny Roy, a Northeast Asia political and security issues expert at the East-West Center, said the break-off in military-to-military contact is part of a familiar pattern by China and the re-engagement represents "getting back to normal."
"And the 'normal' is not so good to begin with and has been worse in 2010 -- because there are some really big issues between the United States and China that we have not really begun to talk about working out solutions for," Roy said.
Arms sales to Taiwan, which China views as a renegade province, is one, with the U.S. not giving any sign it will stop, and China reacting "more strongly" with the protracted military severance, Roy said.
The other big issue is China's assertion of stronger ownership rights over maritime regions off the Chinese coast, both in the Yellow Sea and South China Sea.
Roy calls the steps, both by the U.S. and China, the "irresistible force against the immovable object."
But after making its own "assertive moves," China may want to do damage control and assuage concerns by re-engaging with the U.S. military, he said.
The Pentagon said the Hawaii talks will focus on maritime cooperation, including search-and-rescue exercises and communication at sea.
"Evidently, they want to start with something relatively easy, rather than announce, for example, that we're going to ... solve and settle the issue over sovereignty in the South China Sea (and) where the United States Navy can and cannot operate, or arms sales to Taiwan," Roy said.
Pono Kealoha and I made it to the secret forum that was put on at the Aloha Tower. I now remember how I got to this it was through a quick commercial on the radio and a search on the internet that had very little information. It was a forum to 'touch' the community and then say to the Obama that his private Team discussed marine spatial planning with the natives of the island which infact is the third 'Mahele'.
Afterwards, you know that Pono and I will disagree on some few things. Regardless, this information needs to get out and reach a population that wants to party while things are being ripped out from under their feet. So I have to humble myself and pray that it get's out quickly. We got home and while Pono was editing and cooking dinner, I was chatting with Tane. He reminded me about the days late 70s, when I use to attend these Western Fisheries meetings with Alika Cooper about the ice. I recalled the Wadsworth years and how the boundaries were moving from 15 miles to 10 and now to 3 miles to the shoreline are the states jurisdiction, I think. What Wadsworth Yee was doing back then was legislating policies for more importing of frozen sea foods.
Reefers, storage, and ice was the talk among the commercial and fishermen.
Pacific Islander owns the whole Pacific Ocean when we combine our boundaries together. Which is the reasoning for the Obama Team to legitimize their marine spacial planning with UNESCO. Most of the young fishermen were either in diapers or not in existence during these peril times with the military, UH researchers, and foreign countries such as Russia, and France and Japan. Different countries were out in the Pacific wreaking hovac with our Pacific Ocean especially during Rim Pack years.
I'm having a difficult time editing. so sorry about he inconsistency.
Pono was under pressure with no resources, many things to do and he needed to get ready for his Maui trip, so with little energy we managed. He was able to film the different people there--Keaumoku Kapu from Maui was the main assertion to the what's happening in this process. We came home that night and Pono edited and cooked dinner at the same time. I was talking to Tane and he reminded me about the ICE that was a controlling factor to get the fresh fish into the market. The only women on the panel talked about 'fresh' fish and I had forgotten about the only element of control back in the 70s which was Ice. If you have no ice one cannot go out and fish and expect to get your fresh catch to the market. So the whole 'dry' fish talk was the on everybody's thinking and talk back then. It was a hot bed of black Roses.
Whenever, I work in the fields with houseless, I am looking out for the 'holoholo' fishermen. Enforcements are real and nasty. Alex Cole from NOAA make sure that they get arresting records just as they use to do with Native Hawaiian women that gathered limu and opihi on the shore lines. Same ass holes, USA brand.
The purpose of this initiative is to help countries operationalize ecosystem-based management by finding space for biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development in marine environments. One way to do this is through marine spatial planning. Our work focusses on moving marine spatial planning beyond the conceptual level by:
Developing a step-by-step Approach for implementing marine spatial planning;
Documenting marine spatial planning initiatives around the world;
Analyzing good practices of marine spatial planning;
Collecting references and literature on marine spatial planning;
Enhancing understanding about marine spatial planning through publications;
Developing capacity and training for marine spatial planning.
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What is marine spatial planning?
Marine spatial planning is a public process of analyzing and allocating the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic and social objectives that have been specified through a political process.
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Who is making this work possible?
This current work is made possible primarily through grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Other contributors to this initiative are WWF International, the Belgian Science Policy Office and the Flemish Government (Belgium).
A list of contributors to the 2006 Workshop on marine spatial planning is available on the sponsors page of this website.
Last updated: 28 January 2010
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